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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Devo and AlienVault OSSIM are two leading products in the network security space. Devo seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced data analytics capabilities and user-friendly approach, while AlienVault OSSIM is favored for its comprehensive threat detection features.

Features: Devo provides powerful data analytics, real-time monitoring, and seamless integration capabilities. AlienVault OSSIM stands out with built-in security tools, threat intelligence, and incident response features. Devo offers strong analytics, while AlienVault OSSIM delivers a comprehensive security package.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Devo could benefit from enhanced reporting, more intuitive configuration options, and refining existing features. AlienVault OSSIM users wish for improved scalability, better documentation, and enhanced overall usability and support materials.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Devo is frequently praised for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. AlienVault OSSIM has a more complex deployment model which can be challenging for new users. AlienVault OSSIM's customer service, while helpful, sometimes lacks the quick response times reported by Devo users.

Pricing and ROI: Devo has a more appealing pricing model and is often seen as providing better ROI due to its efficiency and cost-effectiveness. AlienVault OSSIM tends to have higher setup costs but compensates with its comprehensive feature set, which users find justifies the investment. While Devo is more budget-friendly, AlienVault OSSIM delivers a balanced ROI with its wide range of capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

AlienVault OSSIM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

25th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Devo

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (17th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of AlienVault OSSIM is 1.2%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devo is 1.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Devo	1.2%
AlienVault OSSIM	1.2%
Other	97.6%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Brandon Pearce

Independent Contractor at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Enables cost-effective security management for small businesses

Scaling for USM is always challenging for any product unless it is purpose-built or overbuilt at the front end. They will use Palo Alto and its competitors, and LevelBlue will manage that implementation. The main area where the AlienVault product was lacking around the 2018 timeframe was in its ability to scale. By pushing it to a cloud-based system, they've largely alleviated scale issues. It's native in Amazon but will also run in Azure. They have worked with cloud service providers to offer enough throughput at a cost reasonable for a corporation. Scaling was their biggest problem, and they've largely conquered those issues.

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Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response

Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Network traffic analysis is highly efficient."

"The paid version of the solution has reporting and better scalability options."

"A very good feature of AlienVault OSSIM is that it has many domains that can be integrated from different solutions."

"There are a lot of people you will find using OSSIM since they are also offering OTX as a service"

"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are case management, ease of configuration, and investigation."

"AlienVault OSSIM's GUI is very user-friendly."

"Most of the SOC or SIEM enterprise class products are very expensive, whereas with OSSIM you can start out with a smaller setup and then expand as you wish."

"The solution is very stable, and compared to QRadar and Splunk, it's very stable."

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"The querying and the log-retention capabilities are pretty powerful. Those provide some of the biggest value-add for us."

"The most powerful feature is the way the data is stored and extracted. The data is always stored in its original format and you can normalize the data after it has been stored."

"We can ingest virtually any log source, which is much better than our previous solution."

"Overall, I have no issues with it and my guys love it."

"Being able to build and modify dashboards on the fly with Activeboards streamlines my analyst time because my analysts aren't doing it across spreadsheets or five different tools to try to build a timeline out themselves. They can just ingest it all, build a timeline out across all the logging, and all the different information sources in one dashboard. So, it's a huge time saver. It also has the accuracy of being able to look at all those data sources in one view. The log analysis, which would take 40 hours, we can probably get through it in about five to eight hours using Devo."

"It's a core tool for us in looking at logs, because logs are the starting point in any investigation, so leveraging Devo from start to finish in any investigation is basically what we do."

"It is a joy to partner and be able to work with this kind of system."

"Devo helps us to unlock the full power of our data because they have more than 450 parsers, which means that we can ingest pretty much any type of log data."

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Cons

"AlienVault OSSIM on-premise version is more difficult to implement than the cloud version. Additionally, they should add integration between several different environments at once and improve their online knowledge base."

"From a management console perspective and the maturity of the dashboards, I would probably put it slightly behind some of the other players that have been in the market for ages."

"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."

"I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable."

"The initial setup was a bit complex. You've got to do a lot of reading. It's not an intuitive implementation."

"The incidence reporting could be better."

"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."

"The log collection is okay, but tracing the logs or tracing the events is a bit difficult."

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"The overall performance of extraction could be a lot faster, but that's a common problem in this space in general. Also, the stock or default alerting and detecting options could definitely be broader and more all-encompassing. The fact that they're not is why we had to write all our own alerts."

"Technical support could be better."

"There's always room to reduce the learning curve over how to deal with events and machine data. They could make the machine data simpler."

"Some of the documentation could be improved a little bit. A lot of times it doesn't go as deep into some of the critical issues you might run into. They've been really good to shore us up with support, but some of the documentation could be a little bit better."

"Technical support needs to be more direct. For example, when we submit a ticket, the support team will delegate a task to the operations team, for example, or various other teams."

"One major area for improvement for Devo... is to provide more capabilities around pre-built monitoring. They're working on integrations with different types of systems, but that integration needs to go beyond just onboarding to the platform. It needs to include applications, out-of-the-box, that immediately help people to start monitoring their systems. Such applications would include dashboards and alerts, and then people could customize them for their own needs so that they aren't starting from a blank slate."

"Some third-parties don't have specific API connectors built, so we had to work with Devo to get the logs and parse the data using custom parsers, rather than an out-of-the-box solution."

"It's stable but it's not extremely stable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"OSSIM is open source, and USM is the paid license. So, if you want, you can switch to USM. There you will have to buy a license, and they have a support team that helps you out on issues you face."

"OSSIM is free."

"We are using the community version, which can be used for free."

"The price of AlienVault OSSIM is too high sometimes for us to present to our customers. The price should be lower. We are on a three-year license to use the solution. We had to pay extra for the support."

"AlienVault pricing is the best. Whatever cost you are paying, you are getting a return on every penny... It's not like your IBM, your QRadar, or Splunk, where the cost is too high."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"AlienVault OSSIM is free."

"I used the paid version of the tool and found it to be expensive. It has been a while since I changed to Securonix. I will have to check whether AlienVault charges per device, user, or log."

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"The way Devo prices things is based on the amount of data, and I wish the tiers had more granularity. Maybe at this point they do, but when we first negotiated with them, there were only three or four tiers."

"It's a per gigabyte cost for ingestion of data. For every gigabyte that you ingest, it's whatever you negotiated your price for. Compared to other contracts that we've had for cloud providers, it's significantly less."

"Pricing is based on the number of gigabytes of ingestion by volume, and it's on a 30-day average. If you go over one day, that's not a big deal as long as the average is what you expected it to be."

"Devo was very cost-competitive... Devo did come with that 400 days of hot data, and that was not the case with other products."

"It's very competitive. That was also a primary draw for us. Some of the licensing models with solutions like Splunk and Sentinel were attractive upfront, but there were so many micro-charges and services we would've had to add on to make them what we wanted. We had to include things like SOAR and extended capabilities, whereas all those capabilities are completely included with the Devo platform. I haven't seen any additional fee."

"[Devo was] in the ballpark with at least a couple of the other front-runners that we were looking at. Devo is a good value and, given the quality of the product, I would expect to pay more."

"I like the pricing very much. They keep it simple. It is a single price based on data ingested, and they do it on an average. If you get a spike of data that flows in, they will not stick it to you or charge you for that. They are very fair about that."

"Be cautious of metadata inclusion for log types in pricing, as there are some "gotchas" with that."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

14%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

University

Financial Services Firm

13%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlienVault OSSIM?

It depends. I would need to review their cost models, but generally, they are on a scaled basis based on throughput usage. Because it's a software as a service solution for their core product for U...

What needs improvement with AlienVault OSSIM?

What is your primary use case for AlienVault OSSIM?

This solution is very similar to most of the other MSSPs that you would find out there. When I look at use cases, AlienVault was initially aimed at small to medium businesses. It grew, and that was...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

The price is considered okay.

What needs improvement with Devo?

Perhaps Devo could add some features in the future on the network part. Specifically, I think they could improve network traffic analysis capabilities.

What is your primary use case for Devo?

I have been using Devo as a partner and system integrator for three years. For log monitoring, the clients' use cases can utilize Devo perfectly. Compliance and security operation monitoring are th...

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Also Known As

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Overview

AlienVault OSSIM integrates threat alerts, asset discovery, and data correlation with vulnerability assessment, logging, and network configuration for enhanced usability and threat intelligence via OTX, appealing to those seeking an open-source SIEM solution with comprehensive features.

AlienVault OSSIM offers an open-source platform focused on monitoring and security event management. It enables users to conduct threat detection, vulnerability scanning, log collection, and maintain compliance with standards. Its capabilities in incident management, network visibility, and SOC functions offer a cost-effective approach to security information and event management. OSSIM helps analyze data from diverse sources and triggers alerts for malicious activities. The platform is praised for its integration capabilities, centralized dashboards, and ease of use, attracting those who wish to assess SIEM solutions without heavy investment. However, challenges exist with scalability and integration, especially in large enterprises and regulated environments, requiring interface improvements and configuration ease. Enhancements in log management and false positive reduction are priorities for users.

What features does AlienVault OSSIM offer?

Threat Alerts: Provides timely notifications of potential threats.
Asset Discovery: Identifies and catalogs devices on the network.
Data Correlation: Integrates information from multiple sources to detect complex threats.
Vulnerability Assessment: Scans systems for known vulnerabilities.
Integration Capabilities: Connects with external systems for improved data sharing.
Logging and Dashboards: Centralizes information for easier monitoring and analysis.

What benefits can users expect from AlienVault OSSIM?

Enhanced Security Detection: Comprehensive threat identification features.
Cost-Effectiveness: Delivers security capabilities at lower costs.
Network Traffic Analysis: Offers detailed insights into network activities.
Advanced Threat Policies: Supports sophisticated security policy configuration.

AlienVault OSSIM is deployed in industries requiring robust security event management. It assists in monitoring network traffic and identifying threats in sectors like finance, healthcare, and IT services. By leveraging open-source software, businesses enhance security without incurring excessive costs, making it suitable for small to medium enterprises.

AT&T

Devo offers powerful visual analytics, real-time data querying, and log integration capabilities within a cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture, supporting extended data retention ideal for long-term analysis and compliance.

Devo is recognized for its Activeboards, which facilitate visual analytics. High-speed search capabilities and real-time analytics enable efficient data manipulation and querying. Its multi-tenant architecture supports effective data segregation and customization tailored to distinct business needs, enhancing its value for handling complex log integrations. With extended data retention of 400 days and a cloud-native architecture, Devo is a robust platform for long-term analysis and compliance requirements. Though opportunities exist to improve browser stability on large searches, SOAR integrations, and its parser capabilities, Devo remains essential for incident response and security monitoring, offering centralized data storage and analysis.

What are Devo's most important features?

Activeboards: Facilitate visual analytics and data exploration.
High-Speed Search: Enables fast data querying and manipulation.
Real-Time Analytics: Supports instant insights and decision-making.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Allows effective data segregation and customization.
Extended Data Retention: Offers 400-day log retention for compliance and analysis.
Complex Log Integration: Handles intricate data sources effortlessly.

What benefits and ROI should organizations look for in reviews?

Visual Insights: Enhance understanding through interactive dashboards.
Performance Efficiency: Saves time with high-speed data search and real-time results.
Customization Flexibility: Fits specific business requirements with multi-tenant architecture.
Long-Term Compliance: Ensures alignment with extended data retention needs.
Centralized Monitoring: Enables comprehensive incident response and security monitoring.

Devo is extensively used in industries focused on incident response and digital forensics, centralizing data for security monitoring across hybrid environments. Organizations benefit from its ability to store and analyze aggregated logs, creating alerts and dashboards to enhance visibility for network and endpoint activities in multi-domain settings.

Sample Customers

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